Under a backdrop of grain elevators, an eastbound freight led by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 137 slowly works its way through Muskego Yard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 6, 1986. A little ... (more)

A pair of SD40-2's led by #137, still in Milwaukee Road colors, lead a grain train thru La Crescent, MN in July of 1987.

CREW CHANGE. On a cloudy day in 1985 I roamed northeastern Iowa in search of Milw trains and was completely skunked until the last few minutes of daylight. The SOO/MILW merger is still two month... (more)

A pair of Milwaukee and MKT SD40-2's have just come down Rutledge Hill and cross the BN diamonds on the way into the Ottumwa yard and quick crew change before heading on to Kansas City.

A westbound Milwaukee Road "dead freight" emerges from Tunnel 18 near Nimrod during the last summer of Milwaukee Road operations on the Pacific Extension.